Posted on 01/07/2020 12:07:18 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg said Monday he has no regrets for his support for the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003.
“I don’t live in a regret world, and I didn’t make the decision,” Bloomberg said in a sit-down interview with the Los Angeles Times.
“America wanted to go to war, but it turns out it was based on faulty intelligence, and it was a mistake,” the billionaire former mayor added. “But I think the people that made the mistake did it honestly, and it’s a shame, because it’s left us entangled, and it’s left the Middle East in chaos through today.”
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Nobody cares mikey.
“””””””, but it turns out it was based on faulty intelligence””””””””””
The intelligence that was used largely came from the Clinton administration.
Intel is never “faulty” or “solid” as we are being told recently. It is always a matter of weighted probabilities and best guesses. In the end we go with our civilian leaders who control the use of military force and stand for election by the people.
Yikes, I agree with Buffoonberg more than I do some FReepers.
I've seen a number of people on this board retroactively buy the "Bush lied, people died" narrative from the left, which conveniently ignores the fact that EVERY major RAT politician in Washington swore up and down that Saddam had WMDs and was on the verge of imminently using them, and stated that as fact long before Bush ever became POTUS. If Bush "lied" about Iraq's WMDs, then so did Bill and Hillary Clinton, Al Gore, Howard Dean, Joe Biden, Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, etc., etc.
“I didn’t make the decision.” A real take-the-bull-by-the-horns leader, Bloomberg is.
Candidate Trump said much the same thing a few years ago, now he's the President, and Bloomberg can shut his mealy mouth.
Cogent and reasonable response.
Sadaam didn’t help his case either.
Oh, and the ME has always been 7th century FUBAR...
What a wishy washy arse he is.
Donald Trump wasn't the only one who knew that. There were plenty of folks here on FR who didn't buy into the globalist bullsh!t of that retarded baboon George W. Bush.
Some of us actually remember the prescient wisdom of someone who predicted years earlier in the mid-1990s that an invasion of Iraq would be a fool's errand:
"Once you got to Iraq and took it over, took down Saddam Hussein's government, then what are you going to put in its place? That's a very volatile part of the world, and if you take down the central government of Iraq, you could very easily end up seeing pieces of Iraq fly off: part of it, the Syrians would like to have to the west, part of it -- eastern Iraq -- the Iranians would like to claim, they fought over it for eight years. In the north you've got the Kurds, and if the Kurds spin loose and join with the Kurds in Turkey, then you threaten the territorial integrity of Turkey. It's a quagmire if you go that far and try to take over Iraq. The other thing was casualties. Everyone was impressed with the fact we were able to do our job with as few casualties as we had. But for the 146 Americans killed in action, and for their families, it wasn't a cheap war. And the question for the president, in terms of whether or not we went on to Baghdad, took additional casualties in an effort to get Saddam Hussein, was how many additional dead Americans is Saddam worth? Our judgment was, not very many, and I think we got it right." -- Dick Cheney, C-SPAN interview, 4/15/1994
Yeah, that's the same Dick Cheney who decided less than a decade later that invading Iraq was suddenly a great idea.
Never trust your government.
There are mic drops and then there are Mike droppings.
This guy sounds more like Ponce Pilates’ bimbo irresponsible daughter than a leader
This man is dangerous. He is spending huge amounts of money to become president. Why? He’s rich? Power. He hopes to change the country to a joyless communist state.
Of course, as president he would rake in big bucks that would enable him to buy a mansion like bammy did.
There must have been “big gulps” at the DNC when he said this. He’s like Steyer but without the personal charisma. Just bring on crazy Bernie and give people the capitalism vs socialism showdown that everyone wants.
A lot of Super Tuesday Dem voters care quite a lot.
I don’t recall Mr. Short-of-Inseam his opinion...
I don’t recall asking Mr. Short-of-Inseam his opinion...
He supported it before he didn’t.
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